{"id":202523,"date":"2024-12-27T07:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T13:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/an-artificial-nerve-system-gives-prosthetic-devices-and-robots-a-sense-of-touch"},"modified":"2024-12-27T07:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T13:22:26","slug":"an-artificial-nerve-system-gives-prosthetic-devices-and-robots-a-sense-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/an-artificial-nerve-system-gives-prosthetic-devices-and-robots-a-sense-of-touch","title":{"rendered":"An artificial nerve system gives prosthetic devices and robots a sense of touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-artificial-nerve-system-gives-prosthetic-devices-and-robots-a-sense-of-touch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stanford and Seoul National University researchers have developed an artificial sensory nerve system that can activate the twitch reflex in a cockroach and identify letters in the Braille alphabet.<\/p>\n<p>The work, reported May 31 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\"><em>Science<\/em><\/a>, is a step toward creating artificial skin for prosthetic limbs, to restore sensation to amputees and, perhaps, one day give robots some type of reflex capability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take skin for granted but it\u2019s a complex sensing, signaling and decision-making system,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/search?q=zhenan\">Zhenan Bao<\/a>, a professor of chemical engineering and one of the senior authors. \u201cThis artificial sensory nerve system is a step toward making skin-like sensory neural networks for all sorts of applications.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford and Seoul National University researchers have developed an artificial sensory nerve system that can activate the twitch reflex in a cockroach and identify letters in the Braille alphabet. The work, reported May 31 in Science, is a step toward creating artificial skin for prosthetic limbs, to restore sensation to amputees and, perhaps, one day [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}